Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wore a striped T-shirt. His face was smooth, except for a few blackheads, and entirely hairless. He and another guy, David, had run back to the bar car and bought three six packs of beer. They were complaining about how much it cost to buy beer on the train; they could have got two cases for the same price in a liquor store. Tom got up and went back to buy himself a drink...
David interrupted then and wanted to know what happened after they got to New York. Tom explained that there was an hour between trains; they would eat dinner and continue on another train for Trenton, then take the bus to Fort Dix. Trenton, New York? David' wanted to know; Trenton, New Jersey, Tom said. Chuck said that he was thinking about going to Fort Dix now, maybe he wouldn't go AWOL after all. Everyone said they thought that would be a good idea; David especially thought so and told Chuck about it. "Knows everything, that fucking kid," Tom said...
...said yeah he was right and then David asked again if I was sure his sergeant wouldn't be there. I said I was almost positive. Then Chuck started talking about the last time he came to New York City on the train, in the summertime, and there was this girl sunbathing on the roof without any clothes on, and he could see everything; you could see her ass hole and everything. Even the ass hole, Tom wanted to know, and started to laugh, rolling his eyes at me. Chuck said...
...wouldn't cause Tom any trouble and would Tom give him time enough to get away. Tom wouldn't answer him, only sat there shaking his head and looking out the window. We were in the tunnel under the East River now, pulling into Penn Station and the train stopped. It was dark in the tunnel and the fumes from all the trains lingered there so it smelled very bad inside the train and David kept asking what the smell was and the electricity from the subway trains kept flickering in the dark and David wanted to know what that...
...with a $30 Dracaena massangeana (dracaena). As a result, plant doctors (many with degrees in horticulture or agriculture) are as much in demand as pet vets. Drs. Greenthumbs charge an average $15 a housecall, $10 or so a day for plant sitting and as much as $50 to potty train a specimen needing more root space. Boston's Plant Parenthood even offers a vegetative version of Blue Cross-Blue Shield for green pets...